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zbMath0453.57001MaRDI QIDQ3900682

John Stillwell

Publication date: 1980

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacesReidemeister-Schreier processTuring machinessimplicial complexesfundamental groupDehn surgeryhomeomorphismtorus knotsfirst homology groupbranched coveringslens spacesTietze transformationsHeegard splittingsNielsen-Schreier theoremPoincare conjectureCayley diagramsSeifert-VanKampen theoremJordan's curve theoremwild knotsisotopy theory of curves on surfacesKurosh' subgroup theoremsolution of the word problem for braid groupssolvability of the word problem for the fundamental group of a surfaceunshellable triangulation of the 3-ballWirtinger's presentation of knot groupsalgorithmically solvable and unsolvable problems in group theory

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Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to group theory (20-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-01) General low-dimensional topology (57Mxx) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20Fxx)

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